The department is committed to improving user experience and ensuring our websites are accessible to all users.

This website is currently working on meeting Level AA success criteria of W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. We will be taking a staged approach to ensure accessibility compliance across all our websites.

We will attempt to rectify the problem and provide you with any information you require in an alternative format. We are always interested in receiving feedback about your experience of accessing the department’s online services and information.

Responsive design

Our websites are mobile-friendly and built for viewing on multiple platforms including desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smartphone devices.

Accessibility tools

Many tools exist to help people with a disability access the internet. These tools are defined as either 'hardware' or 'software'.

Hardware

Various hardware tools can help people with disabilities to use a computer keyboard or mouse, for example:

Browsers and operating systems

Your experience of this website may vary according to the capabilities of your browser, operating system or device.

The department actively supports browsers used by more than two per cent of our visitors.

Given the wide range of systems and devices available, we do not actively test with browsers where the usage falls below two per cent of visitors. As a result, your experience of our website may be variable on older browsers.

As a result, your experience of our website may be variable on older browsers. For the best experience make sure you update your browser to the latest version.

Supported browsers

Chrome 44+

Safari 9+

Internet Explorer 11+

Firefox 49+

Edge 14+

Supported operating systems

Windows 7+

iOS 9.3+

Android 6+

MacOS 10+

Browser shortcuts

The following keyboard shortcut forms are used throughout the lists below: Ctrl=Control; Esc=Escape; Alt=Alternative; Del=Delete; UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT=Arrow keys.

Where available, the key combinations for Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems have been provided.